Man Mohan Adhikari

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Man Mohan Adhikari, Nepalese politician who dedicated most of his adult life to the fight against the monarchy and authoritarian rule; in 1994–95 he served as Nepal’s first communist prime minister for about nine months, during which he initiated a number of reforms, such as a build-your-own-village program to direct money to poor villages (b. June 1920, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal—d. April 26, 1999).